God’s Pattern for the Christian
I come to deliver you out of the hand of the enemy and
to bring you up unto a good and large land, one
flowing with milk and honey; (Exodus 3:8)
The Wilderness Wanderings
1. Egypt in self
2. Bondage to sin
3. Carnality and unbelief
4. Discipline of the Holy Spirit
5. Christ as Savior and Lord
6. Co-Exist as slaves to sin
That I may
know Him Phil 3:10
Phil and the fellowship
1:29-30 of His suffering
Grace
Through
Faith
The Jordan
River
Is
Identification
Our death
(Crucifixion)
in Him as our
Substitute
Gal 3:3
A subjective
Work
Canaan
(The Land)
1. Saints in heaven
2. Captive in Christ
3. Christ as Life
4. Power of Spirit
5. Taught by Spirit
6. Apprehended
and the power of His Resurrection
Made conformable to His death
Physical Death
Egypt
(The World)
1. Self in the flesh
2. Bondage to Satan
3. Sin
4. Conviction of spirit
5. Christ as judge
6. Control by Satan
Grace
Through
Faith
Physical Birth
The Red
Sea
Is
Salvation
Christ dies
for us
Eph 2:8-9
An objective
work
He who has entered into His Rest;
has ceased from self works.
For the word is living and powerful, and sharper than any two
edged sword, piercing to the dividing of soul and spirit
and of the Joints and marrow and is
a discerner of the thoughts
and intents of the heart.
(Heb. 4:10-12)